Direct SIP: Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.1

If you're looking for an introduction about how to configure Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) version 6.1.2 with Office Communications Server 2007 R2, this article will help you. The proper way to connect and interoperate the two products is to set up a Direct SIP connection in Office Communications Server. On the Cisco side, this is referred to as a SIP trunk. This article covers how to configure a SIP trunk in CUCM.

Authors: Jerome Berniere, Rui Maximo

Original publication date: December 2009

Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2

 Interoperating Office Communications Server and CUCM

If you're looking for an introduction about how to configure Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) version 6.1.2 with Office Communications Server 2007 R2, this article will help you. The proper way to connect and interoperate the two products is to set up a Direct SIP connection in Office Communications Server's parlance. In Cisco's parlance, this is referred to as a SIP trunk. So, when discussing the configuration of CUCM, we'll refer to this interop connectivity as SIP trunk. When explaining the configuration of the Office Communications Server, we'll refer to this interop connectivity as a Direct SIP.

If you're trying to operate CUCM with Office Communications Server 2007 R2, you probably already have CUCM deployed in your environment for all your IP phones and your CUCM configured to route all external calls to the PSTN through a PSTN trunk. In this case, you'll likely want to configure Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Voice to route external calls to the PSTN through the CUCM PSTN trunk. Calls between Communicator users and Cisco IP phone users should be possible using each user's unique extension number, and users are accessible via externally routable direct inward dialing (DID).  This is illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Routing of calls between Communicator users and Cisco IP phone users

There are two parts to interoperating the two products: configuring CUCM, and configuring Office Communications Server. The high level steps for configuring CUCM are as follows:

  1. Create partition
  2. Create calling search space
  3. Define translation patterns
  4. Provision SIP trunk
  5. Set up route pattern

The following sections describe the CUCM configuration steps in more detail. For details about how to configure Direct SIP on Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Mediation Server, see Direct SIP: Configuring Mediation Server.

 Configuring Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.1.2

Let's dive into the configuration steps for CUCM. The connectivity between CUCM and the Mediation Server is referred to as SIP trunk to conform to Cisco's terminology.

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